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Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by hanrahan to c/australia@aussie.zone

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Ward said the impact of bleaching had been extensive across 16 sites that she visited in the reef’s southern section, affecting coral species that had usually been resistant to bleaching. Some coral had started to die, a process that usually takes weeks or months after bleaching occurs.

“I feel devastated,” she said. “I’ve been working on the reef since 1992 but this [event], I’m really struggling with.”

As do I Dr. Ward, with ever election result reinforcing the deveststation of the orthodoxy and the disregard my fellow citizens have for a livable biosphere.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago

Everyday it is looking more and more like something systematic has changed in the paradigm of heat transfer into the oceans, some critical threshold has been broken where a previously efficient cooling system that kept things in check has now become seriously compromised.

This is a harrowing moment to say the least :(